Example sentences of "say [pers pn] be [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like I say I 'm getting some erm |
| 2 | Medics are keeping her under intensive care but say she is making satisfactory progress . |
| 3 | You say you 're saying preventative . |
| 4 | Say you are leaving some to a named person , you have left that person , say ten percent . |
| 5 | So the police say you were doing forty miles an hour . |
| 6 | Lead-free petrol is bad for your car 's health , according to motor mechanics who say they 're repairing dozens of cars which have been damaged by it . |
| 7 | Local people say they 're kept awake by constant noise . |
| 8 | The Home Office say they 're planning further legal action over Murder in Mind . |
| 9 | They 're furious that a promised reduction in hours has n't happened , although health chiefs say they 're doing all they can . |
| 10 | The police say they 're doing all they can to catch the culprits . |
| 11 | Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania-based , Transarc Corp , American Management Systems Inc and Knowledge Systems Corp say they are co-developing object-oriented interfaces for Transarc 's transaction processing monitor , Encina . |
| 12 | Somerset police investigating the death say they are questioning two men . |
| 13 | US officials admit that they knew about the coup plans as early as last Saturday , but say they were given little time to judge its chances of success or to plan any US involvement . |
| 14 | ( WES ) But those who 've worked with conductive education say it 's helped hundreds of families , and that the research on which the report is based is flawed . |
| 15 | They say it 's failing millions of people living in severe hardship . |
| 16 | What are we going I mean we we 've heard also I 'm changing the subject now because that was the the sort of political answer I 'd expect and er I suppose until I get somebody else come on and say he 's talking absolute whatever er I mean I think it is down to the people who live and work with the school . |
| 17 | ‘ They say he 's doing fine . ’ |
| 18 | My dealer says I am doing all the right things and that it 's fairly usual to lose fish with a new tank . |
| 19 | Oh you mean if you , , I says I was getting that for years Berty . |
| 20 | He says I 'm writing these things to you about those who are trying to lead you astray . |
| 21 | Aye , she says I 'm feeling sick , well that 's er all your if your head is what you call it when you feel awful , you know I say if you 've been on the , on the drink you know when you get up and your head ooh , well that sets your stomach off , so his trouble 's coming from his head , on his stomach |
| 22 | Steve keeps saying he were he says I 'm having that tape recorder , I says you 're not she 's coming to take it back . |
| 23 | He says I 'm coming New Year 's Day , alright , he went down and he shut it , cos I went in the shop and I says er hang on I thought you was open New Year 's Day ? |
| 24 | Sue says she 's beaten all the players above her in the world rankings and will have to work harder to make up the difference . |
| 25 | ‘ She says she 's doing fine . |
| 26 | ‘ Richard says you 're doing such marvellous work with your old people . |
| 27 | Says you 're doing this so 's you 're responsible . |
| 28 | Nell , too , had said she was feeling depressed and peculiar . |
| 29 | He says we were told one of them was very badly deformed — but we were never told why — I wondered if that was put down to the tests . |
| 30 | And they looked like that and I says , what , I says , they 've caused these men to earn all this money I says they 're earning more money than and that 's all you 're gon na offer me ? |